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Hi Jean-Claude. It is just regular A/C exterior plywood. I get it at the lumber yard just down the street, never at Home Depot. I'll have to check the label stamped onto the back. I have used this stuff for about 20 years, it does need priming and sanding, then a good coat of 1-Shot as a background. It comes in a few thicknesses from 3/8 to 3/4". If you prefer MDO by all means use it. By the way, the Jill's is another piece set on stand-off blocks. We plan to do the front yard signs the same way. Love....Jill
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Being in the homebased situation, especially right now where I'm working out of my apartment, I tend to cut down my substrates and keep a bunch of "stock sizes" ready for use.
A 4x8 piece of coro, crezon, sintra or whatever ends up being cut into 4 24"x24"s, 4 12"x12", 1 48"x24" and 2 18"x24"s. These are all standard sizes I offer in my pricing list as stock items.
The AC plywood would simply get cut up, primed and possibly painted white and stored away to cover quicky jobs for contractors.
I used to like using Crezon but I'm tired of suppliers sending the no-name version when I specifically state a brand name. My stock substrate sizes are usually (ie. coro and sintra) available from my inventory in white, blue, green, yellow, red, black and the occasional unique color from job offcuts.
I even search out damaged substrate sheets from suppliers and freight companies as they'd rather sell it at a huge discount vs. shipping it back and handling the claim. I'll cut around those damaged corners My contractor customers don't care - they just want their sign yesterday so keeping inventory is an issue for me.
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OK its time for me to go back to my roots of working in the family Lumber yard to explain what AC plywood is.
Like stevo said, its Fir plywood, the normal stuff you would get in any lumber yard INCLUDING home depot, obviously the people employed at the large superstores dont have a clue what theyre selling in most cases.
The "AC" in the name refers to the grade of the outer laminates of the plywood, The "A" is the better of the two sides usually sanded smooth and sometimes will have "Footballs" to fill knot holes the "C" side being the back side, the one without the "Footballs" where you can see the knots pretty clearly. You could all do yourselves a good lesson to learn about Lumber Grading and how the so called "Discount" superstores are selling you CHEAPER lumber. Thats right I said CHEAPER, not less expensive. I saw many a mom n pop store coompeting with the superstores go out of business because they didnt educate their customers on how the discount stores were selling them products of a lesser quality, if you dont believe me, go to the local lumberyard that has been in business for what seems like forever, askl one of the oldtimers to show you the difference between their lumber and Home depots or Lowes, you would be quite surprised, and find out that the better custom home builders wont even buy framing lumber from those stores becaused the quality isnt there.
I worked in the family business for 10 years until my father died and I also worked for a short period of time in the largest lumber yard in Denver when I was going to school there.
Bottom line; if you go to home depot or lowes, your looking for sanded one side exterior grade plywood, they sell it in 1/4", 3/8" 1/2", 5/8" and 3/4". Its also the same stuff that they have cut pieces in 2x2, 2x4, and 4x4.
I am going to try to find the time this weekend to search and hopefully find my books about lumber grading or in the least maybe find a website that refers to lumber grading, its probably a good thing to learn for anyone who builds anything that they expect to withstand any stresses, whether it be for signs or any other construction project you do.
-------------------- Harris Kohen K-Man Pinstriping and Graphix Trenton, NJ "Showing the world that even I can strategically place the pigment where its got to go." Posts: 1739 | From: Trenton, NJ, USA | Registered: Jun 2001
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Hey Harris why dont you post this reply on the main BB in addition to here,this one is good
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Gavin I will probably do a complete posting once I can find the books I have. If I cant find the books I will try to find good links to the proper information anyway.
-------------------- Harris Kohen K-Man Pinstriping and Graphix Trenton, NJ "Showing the world that even I can strategically place the pigment where its got to go." Posts: 1739 | From: Trenton, NJ, USA | Registered: Jun 2001
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Love the choice of colors, very lively!!! You got great taste Jill
-------------------- Daniel Gervais (dgd34@hotmail.com on MSN messenger) Atelier d'enseignes Bois et Passions (Wood and Passions signshop) www.enseignesbp.com 75 rue Luc St-jean sur richelieu, Qc,Can dgervais@enseignesbp.com Posts: 74 | From: Saint Jean sur Richelieu, Qc ,Canada | Registered: Apr 2005
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So, Stevo, that computer weenie brain can come out on the end of a brush! Very nice work! Wanna come visit? I've needed a new sign for years. Can't say you'd have the same benefits, tho'. Mr. Peanut
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